Commission on Theology and Church Relations
of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod

(St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, N.D.)

[Adopted 1932]

44. Those questions in the domain of Christian doctrine may be
termed open questions which Scripture answers either not at all or
not clearly. Since neither an individual nor the Church as a whole
is permitted to develop or augment the Christian doctrine, but are
rather ordered and commanded by God to continue in the doctrine of
the apostles, 2 Thess. 2:15; Acts 2:42, open questions must remain
open questions. -- Not to be included in the number of open
questions are the following: the doctrine of the Church and the
Ministry, of Sunday, of Chiliasm, and of Antichrist, these
doctrines being clearly defined in Scripture.

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